Selected Publications
Jez JM, Lee SG, Sherp AM (2016) The next green movement: plant biology for the environment and sustainability. Science 353, 1241-4
Kilgore M, Holland CK, Jez JM, Kutchan TM (2016) Identification of a noroxomaritidine reductase with Amaryllidaceae alkaloid biosynthesis-related activities. J Biol Chem 291, 16740-52
Lee SG, Nwumeh R, Jez JM (2016) Structure and mechanism of isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from Arabidopsis thaliana: insights on leucine and aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis. J Biol Chem 291, 13421-30
Herrmann J, Nathin D, Lee SG, Sun T, Jez JM (2015) Recapitulating the structural evolution of redox regulation in adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate kinase from cyanobacteria to plants. J Biol Chem 290, 24705-14
Korasick DA, Jez JM, Strader LC (2015) Refining the nuclear auxin response pathway through structural biology. Curr Opin Plant Biol 27, 22-8
Cahoon RE, Lutke WK, Cameron JC, Chen S, Lee SG, Rivard RS, Rea PA, Jez JM (2015) Adaptive engineering of phytochelatin-based heavy metal tolerance. J Biol Chem 290, 17321-30
Bhuiya MW, Lee SG, Jez JM, Yu O (2015) Structure and mechanism of ferulic acid decarboxylase (FDC1) from Sacchromyces cerevisiae. Appl Environ Micro 81, 4213-26
Malik MR, Yang W, Patterson N, Tang J, Wellinghoff RL, Preuss ML, Burkitt C, Sharma N, Li J, Jez JM, Peoples OP, Jaworski JG, Cahoon EB, Snell KD (2015) Production of high levels of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate in plastids of Camelina sativa seeds. Plant Biotech J 13, 675-88
Korasick DA, Chatterjee S, Tonelli M, Dashti H, Lee SG, Westfall CS, Fulton DB, Andreotti AH, Amarashinghe G, Strader LC, Jez JM (2015) Defining a two-pronged structural model for PB1 domain interaction in plant auxin responses. J Biol Chem 290, 12868-78
Saen-oon S, Lee SG, Jez JM, Guallar V (2014) An alternate mechanism for the methylation of phosphoethanolamine catalyzed by Plasmodium falciparum phosphoethanolamine methyltransferase. J Biol Chem 289, 33815-25
Westfall CS, Xu A, Jez JM (2014) Structural evolution of differential amino acid effector regulation in plant chorismate mutases. J Biol Chem 289, 28619-28
Meesters C, Monig T, Oeljeklaus J, Krahn D, Westfall CS, Hause B, Jez JM, Kaiser M, Kombrink E (2014) A selective inhibitor of jasmonate signaling identified via high-throughput chemical screening targets the adenylate-forming enzyme JAR1 in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Chem Biol 10, 830-6
Jez JM, Blankenship RE (2014) Lights, x-rays, oxygen! Cell 158, 701-3
Lee SG, Krishnan HB, Jez JM (2014) Structural basis for regulation of Rhizobial nodulation and symbiosis gene expression by NolR. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111, 6509-14
Korasick DA, Westfall CS, Lee SG, Nanao M, Dumas R, Hagen G, Guilfoyle TJ, Jez JM, Strader LC (2014) Molecular basis for auxin response factor protein interaction and the control of auxin response repression. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111, 5427-32
Lee SG, Jez JM (2013) Evolution of structure and mechanistic divergence in di-domain methyltransferases from nematode phosphocholine biosynthesis. Structure 21, 1778-87
Westfall CS, Zubieta C, Herrmann J, Kapp U, Nanao M, Jez JM (2012) Structural basis for pre-receptor modulation of plant hormones by GH3 family proteins. Science 336, 1708-11